Happy New Year, ECC, Paris and France

For our traditional New Year's Day meal, we had black-eyed peas and cornbread. I love legumes!

We tried to do some school this week with mimimal success. We still have about half a weeks worth of work to finish our study of France, but we have enjoyed baguettes, books, and videos. And on our car trip last week, we listened to Snow Treasure (which takes place in Norway). It was an intriguing story of how the Norwegian children helped smuggled gold out of the country to keep it out of the hands of the Germans.

One reason regular school work did not get done, is that Hannah had gotten in her head that she wanted a bird. She had saved up some money and was acting quite responsible with her chores, so I told her that she needed to do some research first, and then we would talk to Daddy about it. She weighed out the pros and cons of different kinds of feathered pets and decided that a parakeet is what she would like to have.

I helped her do more research to find out what she would need, although she had the basics down. We checked on prices and availability. After we shared with Dad and got approval, things went pretty fast!

Theron got on Craigslist and found a cage in Lilburn for $10, and a pair of 2 year old tame parakeets for $20 in Austell/Smyrna area. In case you didn't know, one will cost $21 at the pet store. We picked up the cage, came home and cleaned it and set it up. Set back out to buy supplies and pick up the birds. Hannah had all the money she needed. The birds looked healthy and happy. When they took them out of the cage to sit on Hannah's finger, we were convinced they were indeed tame.
By 8:30, we had them home and in their new cage, which they went right into with no problem.

The birds ate, and when it was time to go to bed, Hannah covered them and dimmed her lights. This morning everyone wanted to see them and Hannah graciously obligued. Here are Paris and France.

They are both boys. Paris is younger than France and he is a beautiful blue and white.

France is a green and yellow. His original name was Neco, but Hannah wanted to change it.

We had initially thought that Hannah would just be getting one bird, but these two are such good buddies, we could not seperate them. And since they were already tamed, she got a really good deal.